Having always held that there should be room for an
inter- university journal, which should at a reasonable price deal with the activities, aims and problems of undergraduates everywhere, I shall watch with interest the future of Comment, the first issue of which appeared last month. It is an inter-university journal of a special character, being published by the Federation of University Con- servative and Unionist Associations. This should give it a double appeal, which any publication of the kind needs, for it may be doubted whether a common undergraduatism, so to speak, in the twenty universities of the United Kingdom provides sufficient basis for a sixpenny monthly paper ; a common Conservative under- graduatism might—the double interest thus engaged rather more than compensating for the limitation of the field of appeal. I note that one feature of the• new journal is a column of "Sillies," in which I trust the Spectator will never figure. The first award goes to the New Statesman for the assertion that " Probably not even Churchill in his war-time heyday enjoyed a personal ascendancy such as belongs to the Prime Minister today."
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